THE 2016 ELECTION

Donald Trump suggested Sunday the half-dozen white attendees at his campaign rally on Saturday may have reacted appropriately when they shoved, tackled, punched and kicked a black protester who disrupted his speech.

FOREIGN POLICY

Even before the debris from the Paris terrorist attacks was swept away, politicians began sounding the alarm that Syrian refugees could be a national security threat to the United States. The issue has dominated the U.S. political conversation during the week since gunmen and suicide bombers terrorized Paris on a Friday night.

About

Jeremy Diamond is a reporter for CNN Politics covering the White House and Trump Administration.

He's reported on everything from the ins and outs of the Iran nuclear deal to the Republican presidential field and the rise of Donald Trump.

Diamond joined CNN Politics as a reporter in September 2014 after two previous internships with the network. His work in both the Washington, DC and New York bureaus includes reporting for CNN Digital and assisting with the production on Anderson Cooper 360.

Before joining CNN, Diamond earned his journalism chops as a reporter and news editor at the GW Hatchet, the independent student newspaper of the George Washington University where he broke a national news story after uncovering that university officials misrepresented the school's financial aid policy. For that story, he won the Institute on Political Journalism's Collegiate Journalism Award and a Pinnacle Award from the College Media Association.

He graduated Cum Laude from The George Washington University with a degree in international affairs. He also spent a semester at Tel Aviv University and is fluent in French and conversational in Hebrew and Spanish.